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Single Idea 17718

[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / b. Empirical concepts ]

Full Idea

Grounded concepts are like trustworthy on-board maps of the independent world.

Gist of Idea

Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world

Source

Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], Intro)

Book Ref

Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.8


A Reaction

You'll probably need more than one concept for it to qualify as a 'map', but I like this idea a lot. The world, rather than we ourselves, creates our concepts. The opposite of the view of Geach in 'Mental Acts'.